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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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